LRS

LRS

Waste Collection

Rosemont, Illinois 7,038 followers

The nation's sustainability leader in waste, recycling, roll-off and portable restroom services.

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LRS is North America's fifth largest privately-held waste and recycling company. Since 2013, LRS has specialized in providing comprehensive, fully integrated waste diversion and recycling services for millions of residential and commercial customers across ten states: Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Kansas, Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi. Diversified and growing exponentially, LRS also offers affordable roll-off container services, C&D recycling, portable restroom rentals, municipal and commercial street sweeping, mulch distribution, on-site storage, and temporary fencing. LRS owns and operates 85 facilities, safely deploys a fleet of fuel-efficient trucks, and thrives on the passion of 2,500 full-time employees. The company processes more than 3.8 million tons of waste each year, providing safe, innovative, sustainability-driven services to clean and beautify the cities, neighborhoods and communities it serves. To learn more visit www.LRSrecycles.com.

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http://www.LRSrecycles.com
Industry
Waste Collection
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Rosemont, Illinois
Type
Privately Held
Founded
1999
Specialties
Waste & Recycling, Roll Off Dumpsters, Municipal Service, Compactor Equipment, Residential Waste & Recycling, 24-Hour Dispatch, Construction & Demolition Debris, Material Recovery, Commercial Waste & Recycling, LEED Compliance, Portable Restrooms, Organic Waste, Portable Restroom Rental, Organic Waste, Street Sweepers, Mulch, portapotty, sustainability, and Waste Diversion

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    Northern Illinois University partnered with us for an Experiential Learning Study (ELS) on how to improve driver retention. These NIU students brought some insightful stats to our attention and presented actionable solutions to increase our retention numbers in 2025. Our Senior Leadership Team was beyond impressed and we can't wait to see what the next ELS group brings to the table! #Education #DriverRetention #BeLRS♻️

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    Did you know that we use AI and robots to recover aluminum? Our partnership with EverestLabs.AI allows us to be at the forefront of recycling innovation to ensure that we are diverting as much from our landfills as possible. Learn more about our aluminum recycling efforts in this article by Trellis Group: https://bit.ly/4hFNnq5 #BeLRS♻️ #AISustainability #AluminumRecycling

    See how this Chicago recycling plant uses AI and robots to recover aluminum | Trellis

    See how this Chicago recycling plant uses AI and robots to recover aluminum | Trellis

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    We're so grateful for our incredible partners who helped bring this innovation to life! We love showcasing the technology at The Exchange Material Recovery Facility, especially our new robot, a true game-changer for our sustainability efforts. Over the past year, this advanced EverestLabs.AI technology has recovered more than a million aluminum beverage cans, helping us increase recycling rates and reduce waste. Together, we're driving a more circular future! #SustainableSolutions #Recycling #SustainableTechnology

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    Even the most advanced material recovery facilities (MRFs), like LRS' new The Exchange in Chicago, lose some valuable post-consumer recyclable material to landfill. When processing more than 350,000 pounds of recycled aluminum per month, or 12 million used beverage cans (UBCs), some are bound to slip through. Today's most valuable PCR commodity is aluminum, and losing that material out of the back-end of the system is a drain on both potential revenue and circular/sustainable aspirations. So, with funding support from Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) members Ardagh Metal Packaging and Crown Holdings, Inc., LRS installed EverestLabs.AI’s RecycleOS platform, complete with material sorting robot. The robot sits on the residual line, also called the “last chance” line, to catch mis-sorted materials and divert them from landfill to recycling streams. This robot prioritizes aluminum UBCs, and also picks HDPE. This helps increase revenue and ensure maximum efficiency, recovery, and recycling of used beverage cans (UBCs). "The time span from our vision system first seeing an object [a UBC in the residual stream], to determining what it is and what course of action to take, is about 10 to 15 milliseconds,” says Apurba Pradhan at EverestLabs.AI. “In comparison, the best self-driving cars will make that determination at 100-200 milliseconds. We've developed a 10 order of magnitude faster AI to do this kind of work. And the variability in objects is tremendous. A can that ends up in this facility might be completely crushed, or it's in its full natural shape, or anything in between. We have to determine that it's a can, among hundreds of [packaging waste objects] at a time [on the conveyor] of about 10 milliseconds. This is super difficult problem to solve, but once you've done that, then you can program robotics to recover the valuable materials.” The Everest equipment specifically, which has been in the facility for nearly one year, has individually accounted for recovering more than a million individual aluminum beverage cans at the facility, according to Joy Rifkin, sustainability manager at LRS. The value of that recovered material alone often pays for this type of equipment, stakeholders say. The collaboration at LRS follows one between CMI, EverestLabs, and Caglia Environmental, which has captured more than 1,500 additional UBCs per day since installation at a Caglia MRF. “With both robot lease agreements that include a revenue share, CMI is able to leverage that UBCs are consistently one of the most valuable recyclable commodities,” says CMI's Scott Breen. “CMI is receiving a portion of all revenue generated from the cans collected by the robot and then using those funds for even more can-capture equipment in MRFs.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/gqZ37Vtg

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LRS 3 total rounds

Last Round

Debt financing

US$ 100.0M

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